Hamburg, Germany
Competition for a large mixed use urban block with retrofit hotel, retail, offices and housing.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Inhabiting the new wintergardens.
Newham, London
48 new homes for Newham Council.
Adam Khan Architects
Unit 8 have been reimagining the relationship between education, play, nature and the city with a landscape-led reorganisation of an East London primary school site.
Drawing by Louis Smallwood - school as series of walled gardens.
Unit 8 is the MArch Architecture design studio at Kingston School of Art run by Adam Khan, Hannah Summers and Jamie Irving.
An Architecture Foundation film featuring Adam Khan and Tom Stebbing in conversation with Helen Thomas on designing homes for the Hassidic Jewish community in North East London.
Tower Court was designed in close collaboration with muf architecture/art and Daisy Froud for Hackney Council.
Clapton Common, Hackney
Scaffolding coming down on Tower Court.
A collaboration between Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art
Copenhagen, Denmark
Moving in!
Newham, London
Mixed use regeneration project delivering circa 1600 new homes, community facilities, transport interchange, enhanced local high street and new public realm.
A collaboration between Adam Khan Architects, Haworth Tompkins, East and Office Sian.
Planning submission due 2021
Somers Town, London
The project for 10 social homes, community play facilities, youth club and rooftop Multi Use Games Area is featured in The Guardian.
Design District, Greenwich Peninsula, London
A pair of creative workspace buildings within the new Design District cluster for Knight Dragon.
On site, due for completion 2021
South Kilburn, London
New London Awards 2019, Mixed-Use Winner
Due for completion end 2022
Unit 8 have been exploring the theme of embodied within the Anthropocene landscape of Snowdonia's slate quarries.
Image by Finian Reece Thomas.
Unit 8 is the MArch Architecture design studio at Kingston School of Art run by Adam Khan, Juliette Scalbert and Jamie Irving.
This GLA report is part of Good Growth by Design’s united programme of work to enhance the design of buildings and neighbourhoods for all Londoners.
The collaboration with Dan Person Studio for a new home and studio within an ensemble of farm buildings amongst a collection of Dan’s working gardens is featured in Casabella.
Seizure Gallery model is featured in Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Date: 04.10.19 - 13.01.20
TIme: Monday - Sunday, 11:00 - 19:00
Location: MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Av. Brasília, Central Tejo, 1300-598 Lisbon
Ecosystem study in the Arabian Gulf
Camden, London
The first phase of Camden Council’s Community Investment Programme, this project provides community play facilities, youth club, roof top MUGA, adventure play, a nursery school and 10 homes for social rent.
On site, due for Autumn 2020.
Baugruppe Finkenau has been awarded BDA Hamburg Architecture Prize 2020: Second Prize. The new street of houses and maisonettes was a collaboration between Adam Khan Architects, Kraus Schönberg Architekten, DFZ Architekten and APB Architekten for a Baugruppe in Hamburg.
Team: Adam Khan, Camille Sineau, Loukia Lhomme, Emrys James, Patrick Heymann.
Hamburg, Germany
2 terraced houses and 8 maisonettes within a new street now completed.
Photography by Ioana Marinescu
Shoreditch, London
This project is about reimagining the role that Rich Mix plays as the connective tissue between diverse communities and cultures. By unlocking the spatial and economic potential of the whole site, a social building with a porous ground floor can emerge; for informal performance and debate, eating, drinking and accessible arts for all.
A collaboration with Citizens Design Bureau
Clapton Common, London
Starts on site!
Due for completion 2021
Photography by David Grandorge
Newham, London
Custom House Steering Group is an integral part of this project team.
Llanberis, Snowdonia
A group of leading climate scientists are setting up an Earth Resources Centre for advocacy, education and research.
Pre-feasibility work begins in collaboration with Max Fordham
Marian Court is Housing Design Awards 2019 - Project Winner
Homerton, London
A collaboration with muf/architecture art
Homerton, London
A collaboration with muf/architecture art
Design District, Greenwich Peninsula, London
A pair of creative workspace buildings within the new Design District cluster for Knight Dragon.
A monolith of in-situ concrete holds the centre of the site, while op-art façade of a lightweight building makes a vibrant park elevation.
On site, due for completion 2020
Doha, Qatar
A new large-scale museum of Contemporary Art
Competition, 2nd Prize
Architectural Association building visit to Waterlow Court, led by Adam Khan in conversation with Alvaro Velasco.
Carlton & Granville is New London Awards 2019 - Mixed Use Winner
South Kilburn, London
In a collaboration with Dan Pearson Studio, an ensemble of farm buildings is adapted to create a new home and studio amongst a collection of Dan’s working gardens.
Drawing on the tectonics of vernacular farm building, Tanizaki’s ‘In praise of Shadows’ and the concept of Wabi Sabi.
A world-class performance venue for Kaunas, Lithuania.
Competition Joint-Winner
Clapton Common, London
A collaboration between Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art
Work on superstructure nearing completion.
Photography by David Grandorge
TUM, Germany
Adam Khan is visiting Studio Krucker Bates as critic and to give the lecture ‘Betwixt and Between’.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
A new gallery for one of the most celebrated and distinctive artworks of recent years, ’Seizure’ by Roger Hiorns.
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has appointed Adam Khan as one of his 50 Mayor’s Design Advocates to work on the Good Growth by Design programme.
He will support Good Growth across London and address the challenges facing’s London's built environment.
2017
6min 27sec
A film by Lewis Khan, documenting the experiences of users and staff of the New Horizon Youth Centre in Somers Town.
Ellebo Garden Room, Copenhagen
'The proposed strategy for renovation of the structures is a careful combination of maximal retention of the existing structure, substantial new build, complete renovation of the facades and substantial landscape renovation. These are woven together to optimise the efficiency and social effectiveness of the whole project.’
Nordic Built Challenge Jury
On site, due for completion 2020
NLA's Public Housing: a London renaissance exhibition features both Tower Court, Clapton Common and Marian Court, Homerton, our collaborations with muf architecture/art for Hackney Council.
Details here.
Jantje Engels, Marius Grootveld
A last cry for Robin Good Gardens, our proposal to extend rather than demolish the estate; More Not Less!
Center for Architecture, New York
Curated by Karakusevic Carson Architects featuring Tower Court, Clapton Common and Ellebo Garden Room, Copenhagen
Somers Town, London
The renovation and extension of a day centre for young homeless people
Somers Town, London
‘a fantastic sense of civic generosity’
Ellis Woodman, Building Design
Somers Town, London
Photography by Lewis Khan
Interviews and texts by Jan Van Duppen
In progress
Reminiscence, 2016
Edited by Benedict Esche & Benedikt Hartl and published by Edition Architektur
Belsize Park, London
A pair of new houses - planning approved
Vaughan Road wins the Housing category at New London Awards 2018.
New PRS housing for Harrow Council brings generosity, dignity and clarity to the public realm, showing that high-density development can substantially ameliorate a difficult context.
Unit 13: A Society of Rooms
Part II student, Lucy Norfield goes on to join the team
Pensthorpe Play Barn, Pensthorpe, Norfolk
Lydney Park Estate, Gloucestershire
Adam Khan Architects were commissioned to establish a spatial and cultural strategy for the development of Black Rock Farm and the wider Lydney Estate, to host artist residencies and a festival programme.
The festival was launched in September 2016 in collaboration with Matt's Gallery.
Pensthorpe, Norfolk
Kristiansand Art Museum, Norway
Competition finalist, Honourable Mention
Designed by Fraser Muggeridge
Public Buildings 2012, Winner
Adam Khan Architects
A book to celebrate out first seven years of building for people
Designed by Fraser Muggeridge
2015
Ed; San Rocco
Adam Khan was invited to contribute to the Book of Copies with the typology ‘Urban Blocks’. Exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2014 and subsequently published as 5 volumes.
Samlesbury, Lancashire
Samlesbury, Lancashire
